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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14
THE EAST FORK sCROOlHOUsE.
The People There Call Upon the Au.
thoritlcs TO Act.

The People There Call Upon the Au.
thorities to Act.
To TIE EDsros or rHx TIxEs:-
Allow me again to tsouble your
readers with few lines about the
renting OF our schoolhouse for saloon
purposes. A correspondent, in the
ketchum Keystone Of last Saturday,
states that it was rented to secure
"money for the benefit Of tho school,
and by those who spent time and
money in building it. Not one cent
Of county money was used in build
ing it, consequently it belongs to
those who put up"
Now. Mr.. Editor, e. Harlan, G. H.
Benson, Clay Sinson, Dave Tesche-
DOR, James Orion, Ed. Lefort and
others "spent money and time" on
the aehoolhouse. and they, along with
fsur-Gfths Of the people of East
Fork. do not wish 10 have . saloon
there. while the school furniture Is
left to rot 10 the open air, exposed to
al the iaclemencies of the weather.
These people are anything but bigots,
Mr.. Editer; they do not object to the
schoolhouse being used for the SER
vices Of any religious denomination,
nor for shows or meetings of any
kind for which school houses are used.
But they will not permit it to be used
for . saloon. Saloons are perhaps a
necessary evil, but plenty Of other
houses, in better localities, can be got
~ cheaply as our schoolhouse, and
without shocking the moral sense Of
the community.
Mr.. Ludlow. one Of our Trustees,
is the champion of the schoolhouse
saloon. Yet when, at the opening,
the saloon keeper sent q key of beer
TO the North Star, Of which Mr.. Lud-
low Is foreman, and two of his men
got drunk, he discharged them! Yet
he champions the saloon! What in
tsrest leads him to DO SOP
The respectable portion of the PEG.
pie of East Fork call upon the author
tiles to prevent the further occupancy
OF their sohoolhouse As whisky mill,
and expect prompt action. Will they
be disappointed? READER.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14

JupaE CooNs, of Maysville, Ken.
lucky, says that DR.. Williams Indian
Pile Ointment cured him after years
OF suffering. sp2Oyl.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14
Notice to Creditors.
ESTATE OF ARCHIBALD @. wArsos prcrA,

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Al
ministrator OF the Estate OF Archibald C. Watson
deceased to the creditors Of and all persons hsyipf
claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers. within four month,
after the FIRST publication Of this notice, 10 III,
said Administrator. at his place of business Ar
the town OF Broadford in the County Of Alturss,
Dated ~ Rrosdford, Idaho. May 10, 1897
CYRILLE yERDON
Administrator Of Estate Of Archibald G. Watson
nlVSo deceased.
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ATTORNEY-AT
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14

U. S. LAND OFFICE, J
HALEY, IDAHO,
May 10, 1877
On and after June Is, 1887, We
will receive at this office applica tons
for any Public Lands embraced in
the territory covered by Executive
Order of April 20, 1882, viz: From
Range 10 E. to 20 E. inclusive, and
to the south line of the Territory of
Idaho.
HoMEn L. POUND, Register.
J. s. WATERS. Receiver.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14

$500 REWARD for . remedy that
will cure as bad case Of Piles a. DR..
Williams Indian PilasO Ointment.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14

OF THE
Enlargement Of The HALEY Land
District in IQalo Territory.
Notice is hereby given that the
President of the United States, BY
executive order, dated April 20, 1887,
has, pursuant to law, directed that the
east and west boundary lines of the
HALEY Land District be extended
southwark in right lines until they
meet the south boundary line of the
Territory.
Further notice of the precise date
when applications for the lands here.
by transferred from the Boise CITY
and Blackfoot Districts will be re.
ceived BY the officers at HALEY, will be
given by the Register and Receiver
by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of
Washington, this 26th day of April,
A. D. 1887.
BY the President:
WV. A. J. SPARKS,
Commissioner of General Land Office.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-14

TO BE MADE. Cut this
out and return to US, and
We will send you. free,
something Of great value
and importance to you,
that will start Won In hua-
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19

the simple facts above stated are familiar
to every one, since the distinguished
major general Of the United States army,
whom have alluded to, man of culture,
was obliged to confess that he was igno-
rant, and to ask for enlightenment. If
our national history possesses the i'm
portaEce beginning to be attached to it,
as the Historical Association" indicates
and the elaborate enterprise of President
Winsor demonstrates, it would be unpar-
donable to be Indifferent to Pokahontas.
The view presented of her here is personal;
but there is another view much more
important, the public view. Nothing is
easier to show, by the concurrent testi-
mony OF the old writer's, than the fact
that she preserved from destruction the
first English Colony in the United States;
and that jamestown once abandoned, the
North American continent must have
fallen under the sway of Spain.-The
Cosmopolitan.
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A GOOD NIGHTS REST.

II you will persist in burning for a
long time kerosene oil lamp, or filing
your bedroom with heated gas, you need
not prepare to retire with very strong
hopes of getting good nights rest. II
you will allow vase OF flowers to remain
there over one day without changing the
water, or if you will have any plumbers
work in your room, instead of using a
portable washstand, basin, and pitcher, it
is all to no purpose that you insist that
you are very prudent in regard to your
health. AS to the question, allow much
outside air shall let into my room 2" we
have nothing to say. If you are an in
valid, yonr doctor must tell you. If you
are well. and enjoy sound mind, you
can judge for yourself. You know, or
ought to know, how much you can bear.
Only see to it that the air is fresh, that
what you admit is an improvement on
what you send Margaret Sidney,
IN Good Housekeeping.
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LOVE.

Little Alice Lee was playing with her
doll, while her mother was writing. When
her mother had finished the writing, she
told Alice she could come and sit in her
lap, and Alice said:
"I'm SO glad; 1 wanted to love you so
much, mamma"
"Did you, darling" and she clasped
her tenderly. 81 am very glad my Alice
loves me SO; but fancy you we're not
very lonely while wrote; you and dolly
seemed to be having a happy time to-
gether."
eyes, we had, mamma; but 1 got tired
after while OF loving her."
Sand why?"
"Oh, because she never loves me
backp
"And that is why you love me?"
"That is the one why, mamma; but not
the first one, nor the best"
Sand what is the first and best?"
"Why, mamma, don't you guess2"-and
the blue eyes grew very bright and earn
est. "1ts because you loved me when I
was too little to love you back; that's why
I love you So"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
THE WARRIOR AGE.

Standing armies constitute one of the
most important factors in the socialistic
problem in Europe. Hundreds of thou
sands OF the strongest and most active
young men of these countries are taken
from the industrial ranks, and the bur-
den of their pay and support, as also of
the immense caverns or camps, arsenals,
Notifications and all sorts of military
supplies and equipments is thrown upon
their parents and weaker brothers and
sisters left to work at home. 1t is pitiful
to mark the contrast between these SOL
diers with their fine physique and gay
uniforms, lounging around the camps or
strolling the streets, swarming like
locusts everywhere, and the miserable
peasants with their wooden shoes, ragged
clothes and half-starved looks; old men
and women, young girls and little chill
dren, toiling in the hot sun and in the
dirt, struggling to their utmost strength
for their poor and insufficient food, and
taxed to the last soldo on every mean
article they buy or own, to keep this
enormous force of their stout brothers in
the army.
travelling in Germany seventeen years
ago, heard everywhere the boosted fame
Of its great scholars and it's great schools.
To-day the talk is only Of its soldiers, it's
victories and its military power and great
ness. Soldiers are the most welcome
guests in the fashionable salons of its
capital, and it is complsined there that
the EDglish-born Princess Imperial will
still invite to her receptions eminent art
lists and men of letters. Its great uni
versities are still crowded, but it is large
ly with foreign students, and because
the strict requirement OF a university
education for admission to the liberal
professions compels the attendance of
young men seeking professional career.
But the army is now on the highway to
honor. The soldier, not the scholar, is in
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
PRIVATE SNOW-STORMs.

In Gunnar," tale of Morse life, the
author produces striking effect by mar
rating that during a rustic dance the
close and over-heated room was so
charged with moisture from the breath
and perspiration Of the energetic dancers,
that, on the opening of an outside door,
the sudden thrush of icy air filled the
room with dazzling shower of snow
condensed from the vaporous atmosphere.
A somewhat similar private snow.storm
was lately witnessed at the office Of the
Hartford Courant. On the top OF the
building is large tank containing the
water used to run the elevator. The
water is pumped over and over, and be-
comes so hot as to throw off clouds of
steam. On recent afternoon this steam.
rising above the building, was condensed;
and the tiny drops of water, freezing in
the air, fell in steady stream of minute
snowhakes on the roof. 1t was a simple
but interesting result of well.known
laws.
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Rut Mr. Haw;ttt sovs +bo+ CO., oo,,u,o

But Mr.. Hewitt says that "of course
what is known as fashionable society
could not undertake to establish basis of
equality between master and servant, or
employer and employed, within the social
circle. That is not to be expected where
ordinary common sense prevails" Mr.
Hewitt here states one OF the reasons
why domestic service is peculiarly dis
tasteful to great numbers of women. The
main reasons, indeed, are two: one is the
total surrender of the whole life to the
commands of others, and the other is the
sense of inferiority which is made to &C.
company it, These, indeed, are the char
acteristice of slavery. Many women nat
urally prefer lower wages for work and
obedience to others during a certain
number OF hours every day, and com.
plete freedom during the remainder, than
the underwriting service of the kitchen
all the time. This, however, might be
alleviated by the family fellowship. But
since many causes prevent that fellowship,
it is idle to wonder that women prefer
harder work and smaller wages elsewhere
to domestic service.
But the responsibility for the situation
lies very largely with the heads OF house
holds. The servant is separated from
the mistress as by fiery sword of Hin
doc caste. A timely witness to this fact
Is the passage in Mrs. Kirbys lately pub
lished autobiography, describing her ex-
perience as nursery maid in the refined
family OF clergyman. Every close OBJ
server sees that in hosts of households
not only is the whole body of cardinal
virtues expected for thirteen dollars a
month, but that the first virtue expected
Is the most patient and polite endurance
OF insulting arrogance and ill-breeding
from the mistress. 1t is the employer in
this case who is most responsible for the
prejudice against the employment. The
air OF too many housekeeper toward her
handmaiden implies that the maiden
should feel profoundly grateful for the
favor done her by the employment. But
good madam, are you in turn profoundly
grateful to the pedlar who buys your old
papers and rags?. 1t is a simple bargain.
Madam-if you will regard it in no other
ight-you and Cinderella each trade for
what each believes to be to her advan-
tage, and beyond that you are as much
bound to be profoundly grateful to her
for her service as she to you for your
money.-George William Curtis, in Har-
per's Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
MY LADY POKAHONTAS.
BY THE LATE JOHN EsrEN COOKE.

In work under this title, the writer
of this article presented a view of Polka
hontas that was the result of patient and
conscientious study of the old records
relating to her. There is ample reason
to believe that even the majority of we'll
informed persons have not examined
these facts, considering them either un-
important or devoid of interest. A gen.
tleman of extensive reading and critical
culture, the author OF some excellent
books, propounded this question the
other day: els My Lady Pokahontas
truth or fction?"
The necessary reply was that both were
mingled, but that truth, that is, history,
predominated; and it may interest many
persons, who share the newly awakened
interest in American history, to read a
brief and candid statement of what be-
lieve to be the actual truth about Polka
hontas. The subject is not at all trite, as
may be supposed by the general reader,
though the single incident of the preser-
walton of Captain John Smiths life is a
well. worn legend.
This romantic incident has naturally
excited interest and sympathy, but it is
not the most interesting event in the life
of Pokahontas. What is apt to arouse a
more intelligent curiosity is the question
of her real character and her real rela-
tions with Smith, which had very i'm
portant bearing upon the history of Vir-
ginia, and therefore of the United States,
as the settlement of Virginia was the first
step in our history.
will endeavor to state what are, I be-
ieve, the ascertained facts in regard to
Pokahontas, leaving to one side what
ever may have been written by her ad-
mirers or her critics; and more than all,
the heated controversy as to the main in
cident of her career. That is something
quite apart from the design of this paper,
which aims simply to collect the scatter
ed statements to be found in the old writ
ings and to present the writer's views for
the readers Judgment.
Pokahontas was the daughter of Pow
hatan, chief of the Indian tribes in tide
water Virginia, and was born about 1896,
as Smith states that at the end of 1907
she was twelve or thirteen. He made
her acquaintance as a result of his cap
ture on the Chickahomlny river, the say.
ages taking him first as far as the Poto-
mac and bringing him back to Powhat-
ans "chief place of council" on York
river, not far from the present site of
Yorktown. AS Smith only was captured,
all that then occurred rests on his own
statements; and what he stated was, that
the Indians we're about to dash out his
brains, when Pokahontas ran to him, and
taking his head in her arms, begged Pow
hatan to spare him. To this the Indian
chief consented, and Smith remained with
the Indians for the time, making toys
and bead trinkets for the child. Pow
hatan apparently conceived the idea of
making friend Of him, as he offered
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
OUR DAILY BREAD.

"Give us our daily bread" we pray,
And know but half of what we say.
The bread on which our bodies feed
Is but the moiety of our need.
The soul, the heart, must nourished be.
And share the daily urgency.
And, though it may be bitter bread
On which these nobler parts are fed,
No less we crave the daily dole.
o Lord, of body and of SOUL
Sweet loaves, the wine-must all afosm,
The mama and the honey comb,
All these are good, but better still
The food which checks and molds the will
The sting for pride, the smart for sin,
The purging draught for self within.
The sorrows which we shuddering meet
Not knowing their after-taste of sweet
z All these we ask for when we pray,
"Give us our daily bread this days.
Lord, leave US not athirst, unfed,
Give us this best and hardest bread,
Until, these mortal needs all past,
We sit at Thy full feast at last,
Tue bread of angels broken by Thee,
The wine of joy poured constantly.
SUSAN COOLIDGE, in Con0re0attOnalist.
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fashion; and have heard German STU
dents even wish for the outbreak of war
that they might put TO proof their mil
itary discipline and have chance to win
the promotion so slow coming in civil
life. Young Germany talks, thinks and
dreams Of war. It's heart has gone back
to the age Of iron. If the sciences and
arts and commercial interests did not
bind Europe to nineteenth century pro-
gress the general degradation of it's civil
ization would be inevitable. As it is, the
amenities, the moral principles and the
intellectual refinement which mark the
highest and best civilization, have already
suffered great loss. Europe is proving
the truth Of the old Roman maxim, inter
arn'a leges silent, which for the occasion
I will translate: Among armies civil
ization slumbers." Ohio State Journal.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
THE PEOPLES SONG OF PEACE.
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

The grass is green on Bunker Hill,
The waters sweet in Brandywine;
The sword sleeps in the scabbard still,
The farmer keeps his flock and vine;
With vaunt of battlefield or fray1
The brave corn lifts, in regiments,
Ten thousand sabres in the sun;
The ricks replace the battle tents,
The hammered tassels toss and run,
The neighing steed, the bugle's blast
These be the stories of the past.
The earth has healed her wounded breast,
The cannons pillow the fields no more;
The heroes rest; oh, let them rest
In peace along the peaceful shore;
They fought for peace, for peace they fell;
They sleep in peace, and all is well.
The fields forget the battles fought,
The trenches wave in golden grain; =.
Shall we neglect the lesson taught,
And tear the wound agape again?
Sweet Mother Nature, nurse the land,
And heal her wounds with gentle hand.
Lo! peace on earth! Lo! flock and fold,
Lol rich abundance, fat increase,
And valleys clad in sheen of gold:
Oh, rise and sing the song of peacel
For Theseus roams the land no more,
And Janus rests with rusted door.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
When Mr.. Greeley first entere,

When Mr.. Greeley first entered the
office of the Erie Gazette, he found there
friendly printer who describes thus the
quaint youth: "a young man, rather tall
for his age, broad face, high forehead,
faxen hair, broad-brimmed black hat
(not the traditional white one). an old
fashioned roundabout, too short for him,
pepper-and-salt pantaloons, that kept
both ends too busy to meet, old fashioned
blue socks, stoga shoes, a shirt of very
coarse country linen, and a vest that did
not meet the upper end of his pantaloons.
We were not long in finding out the
depth OF mind and qualities of the man
who was in the future to sway his mighty
pen in the defence of the liberties of the
human race"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19

The good sentiment of Alcoeus, beautifully
presented by Sir William Jones, should prevail:
What constitutes State?
Not high.raised battlements, nor labored
mound,
Thick wall or moated gate;
Not cities proud, with spires and turrets
crowned;
Not bays and broadened ports,
Where, laughing at the storm, rich
navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts,
Where low.browed baseness watts perfume
to pride;
No; men, high-mnded men.
Men who their duties know:
But know their rights. and, knowing,
dare maintain.
These men constitute a State;
And SovEREIGS LAW, the States COL
lected will,
Ger thrones and globe eate
Sits empress, browning good, REFRESHING
ILL.,"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19

1t is announced that Lord Tenny-
son has been commanded by the Queen
to write poem or Jubilee Ode," and
that Sir Arthur Sullivan has been COM
manded to set it to music. 1t will be of
semi-religious character, and it will
form part of the solemn service which
Her Majesty will attend on the occa.
sion of the jubilee of her reign. Wheth-
er that service will be held at st. Pauls
or Westminster Abbey has not yet been
decided.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19

According to the latest gossip in
ventor, who poses as "Count Paul Vasili,"
Pope Leo XIII. is great money market
Spectator and has invested largely in
Italian loans and British consols. lie is
not avaricious, however, but gives more
freely, perhaps, than any Of his predecss-
sors, and he lives very plainly. The
dowry he gave to his favorite nephew,
was scarcely $4,000, and his presents to
the bride were poor and cheap. He gives
large subsidies to the newspapers that
support his policy.
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The 4tone Circle.
r E ST.
BY IDA A. AHLBORN.

/ am at rest
Since have understood:
God is, and He is good.
No more my strength
In idle search is spent;
Its secret is content.
'Tis mine to do
What God reveals each day;
1 joy as 1 obey.
lam at rest
Because the love divine
Enfolds this life of mine.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-03-03
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MCMEEN's Doom SEALEp. The
Supreme Court on Monday refused
application for interference on behalf
of William Josiah McMeen, who was
convicted in the oyer and Terminer
of Juniata county of the murder of
his wife, Mrs. Nancy NcMeen, by
sending her poison through the mail
His conviction was upon circumstnn~
tial evidence, and the case was taken
To the Supreme Court and argued in
Pittsburg last fall. The Judgment
was affirmed in an opinion in which
Judge paXon remarked that the pris-
oner's guilt was couclusively shown
by the testimony of the witness,
Dwight Mead, who testified that Nc
Meen had spoken to him Of his wife's
death before any news of the event
could possibly have reached him.
After this opinion was delivered Mead
voluntarily made an affidavit before
the Mayor Of Harrisburg stating that
lie was mistaken in his testimony, and
that the time when he actually met
McMoen was several hours later. Up
on the strength Of this correction the
Court was petitioned to grant rear
gument Of the case, but the petition is
handed down, indorsed by the Chief
Justice-"A majority OF the Justices
being opposed to n reargument Of this
case, 1t is refused" The prisoner is
sentenced to be hanged on Tuesday,
March 30, and we would adnonish
him to prepare for the awful doom
that awaits him. The only hope now
is before the Pardon Board and il is
not likely they will interfere. re.-Junlata
Tribune,